1969 Waltz A SPECIMEN OF CUBEO INDIAN BARK CLOTH Plantin Press DAWSON'S California

DESCRIPTION: 1969: Waltz, Nathan: A Specimen of Cubeo Indian Bark Cloth; Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969; Octavo [i (sample), ii, iii (title page), iv], 1-2, 3 (sample),[4 (colophon)]; 6-1/2 by 10 inches; two monochrome illustrations of bark cloth and 2 tipped-in bark cloth samples and of bark cloth professionally tipped in;  Printed beige wrappers; Title page printed in black and orange; One of EIGHTY COPIES printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press in January 1969 as a style sample for projected publications which were never published with Tapa Cloth of the South Pacific and Colombian Indian Bark Cloth; The author and his wife, members of the Wycliffe Bible Translators made these samples from larger cloths purchased in Cubeo villages in the Colombian Amazon [Plantin Press Bibliography, 301].

CONDITION: FINE [see scans].

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